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Robert Zarr, a Washington DC-based pediatrician and president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a long-time leader in the campaign to bring single-payer health care on the Canadian model to the US, spoke with “This Can’t Be Happening!” host Dave Lindorff about why US health care is so complicated and expensive, and why the so-called Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), is doomed to fail, both at reducing costs and at guaranteeing health care access to all Americans.

Top Stories….. Commutes in New York are the longest among major cities, report finds. What, longer than LA??? Is there any way to fix this? And BTW, how much pollution is spewed into the atmosphere by vehicles stuck in traffic? Just asking. Air Force veteran from New Jersey tried to aid ISIS, US charges. What would cause a military man …

Today I talk directly to you without a guest about follow up studies showing that children diagnosed with ADHD 35 years ago have had their lives destroyed as grownups with brain damage and high death rates. I describe how and why this happens. I also describe our upcoming April 17-19 conference in East Lansing, Michigan, in the process surveying some of the best …

Rand Paul is Ally in Fight to Repeal Patriot Act Congress will consider a bill to completely repeal the Patriot Act, which is up for renewal, this spring. President Obama campaigned on a platform to rein in U.S. intelligence agencies, but “will soon leave Washington in even worse shape than he found it” in terms of civil liberties, said Shahid …

Days Late, Dollars Short: Are Black Leaders Really Helping Chuy? Altered State: The Perpetually Surreal Universe of Hillary Clinton It was an impressive show of support for Jesús “Chuy” García, the underdog in Chicago’s volcanic mayoral runoff slated for April 7. On March 9, an array of African American ministers, elected officials, community leaders and businesspeople, the Rev. Jesse Jackson …

RADIATION IN OUR AIR and WATER is killing us. FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT has been found in tea exported from Japan, as documented by the article linked here. http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/16/radioactivity-green-tea-fukushima/ That radiation as it comes to the US is being tracked by MIMI GERMAN of RADCAST.ORG, a great pioneer in citizen radiation monitoring. Together we explore the terrible realities of what reactor fallout …

This week, the film Mitchell is featuring is Symphony of the Soil, a beautiful film going into exquisite detail about the soil of this earth, and its lush, rich life-giving properties. To discuss the film is its filmmaker Deborah Koons-Garcia (of Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia fame) and narrator Prof. Ignacio Chapela..